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Afternoon storm brings rain, high wind

National Weather Service waiting to measure rain total

An afternoon storm brought high winds and rain to the area for the first time since the end of June, according to the National Weather Service.

Although meteorologists won’t have an official total until after another small band of storms rolls through the area, meteorologist Brandon Drake said the rainfall associated with the storm was significant.

As of 7:30 p.m., 0.82 of an inch was recorded at the Forbes field recording station, according to Kyle Poage, a meteorologist with the weather service.

Drake said, “Anything more than a half-inch is significant in my opinion.”

At 3 p.m., the service issued a short-lived severe thunderstorm warning for east-central Shawnee County. That warning ended at 3:15 p.m., but the storm brought with it the rain the region needed.

“Whatever gets us out of the drought is good,” Drake said.

In conjunction with the thunderstorm warning, the service put a hazardous weather warning in place at 4 p.m. Wednesday. That warning wasn’t given a set expiration time.